[sorry about the long update. I haven't been feeling very well and also I think I'm starting to get bored and I don't know what to put. I have it all in my head, but it's difficult to put into words. Thank to reading this story ]
Rough hands blindfolded them and led them through a labyrinth of corridors. No-one spoke. They were all too scared to. Finally, they heard a door creaking open and they were all shoved through a doorway. Their blindfolds were taken off and they could see their surroundings. The room was big. Made to accommodate at least 5 people, 10 at the most. There were 5 bunk beds and 4 big wardrobes. There was a writing desk and 2 mirrors. A window dominated one wall, letting in the evening light. A door was directly opposite from the one they had just come through, but the door opposite them was friendlier and didn't look as prison like as the one they had just entered. It wasn't bad, but it could be better. Sapphire turned to the captors, her wrists still together, by the fake light manacles.
"You can't just kidnap them! What about their families? Are you so stupid that you didn't even think of that? The police are gonna start looking for them! And they will eventually track it down to you!" She yelled at them. They smiled at each other and Takuya started speaking.
"It's already been taken care of. Their yakuns have taken their place and no-one will suspect a thing." Sapphy stared at them, trying to think of some other way, she could use to get them free, but she could think of none. Shouhei laughed and he and Takuya left.
"What's a yakun?" asked Haruhi. Sapphire turned around to look at her.
"A yakun is a person's duplicate created by magic. They look and act like the person that they are meant to substitute for so that very few people can tell the difference. It is a being that does not feel, does not love, does not hate. A yakun has no real existence in this world. They are only there to fill a gap. To bury a hole. I used them once. I had them take the role of my parents, but their love was fake. In the end it just hurt me even more, so I got rid of them." Sapphy finished speaking and sat down on one of the bunks. "All of you go to sleep. You're all probably exhausted from using magic and you need to rest." She muttered some words and the light around her wrists disappeared. Sapphy lay down on the bunk she had been sitting on and stared above her, not wanting to meet anyone's eye.
Haruhi watched Sapphy and realized she wasn't going to say anything else. Haruhi went over to another bunk and lay down, knowing that the other Hosts would be wondering whether to talk to Sapphy or just let her be. Tamaki spoke first.
"Sapphy, what's going..." Tamaki started.
"Shut UP, Tamaki!" Everyone cut across him. Tamaki went straight to the corner of woe. Sapphire stayed quiet and her eyes finally closed. The other Hosts went to bed and pretty soon it was dark and everyone was asleep.
Haruhi woke up to someone singing softly. It was beautiful. The singing was so soft, Haruhi couldn't hear the words properly, but she could tell that the voice and tune were pure. She opened her eyes and saw it was still dark, but the light from the moon came in through the window. Sapphire sat by the window and Haruhi realized that it was Sapphy who was singing. Haruhi stood up and went closer to Sapphire to hear what she was singing.
"And I realized I was crying.
I remembered what I was running from then.
I was running from what lay waiting in the nightmares.
I was running from what lay waiting at home."
Haruhi recognized the words from somewhere, but it took her a while to remember where from. When she remembered, Sapphire had stopped and had realized Haruhi was listening.
"So it wasn't a poem at all. It was a song." Haruhi said as she remembered the time she had found Sapphy in the classroom on her way to the exit of the school. Sapphire nodded and smiled sadly and looked out of the window.
"There's a prophecy about the Narulin, you know?" Sapphire laughed quietly. "The Narulin would fall in love, with the one with powers that come close to hers. But if she never met the one, then he would never know about his powers." Sapphire glanced at Kaoru then looked back out the window.
"You're the Narulin, aren't you?" Haruhi asked. Sapphire nodded. Haruhi thought for a moment. "Have you fallen in love yet?" Sapphy sighed and looked at Haruhi.
"Haruhi, no-one knows my real name except me. Anyone else who knew died or has forgotten. Sapphire Mizuiro is an alias so that no-one can find my old friends and make them remember. There are ways to make people remember and none of them are nice. Especially if their memories have been removed with magic. Once this is all over, I will have to erase any memories anyone here has of me. Please understand the reason why."
Kaoru turned over with his eyes still closed. He had been woken up by singing and had listened to Sapphire and Haruhi's conversation. He had opened his eyes a little when Haruhi had asked if Sapphy was the Narulin and had seen her nod. He thought about what Sapphire had just said about erasing their memories and was surprised to feel a rush of emotions. He thought about a life without memories of Sapphy and realized that he didn't want that. He looked at the bed above him, knowing that Hikaru was there and felt comforted by that fact. It seemed he was just as dumb as his brother when it came to emotions. Kaoru finally understood what he felt when he looked at Sapphire and that realization came when Haruhi had asked if Sapphire had fallen in love. Kaoru felt love for Sapphire and he didn't want to just forget all about her.